Degoogle + BuyFromEU + Privacy: I’d like to share about my smartphone apps replacement journey:
WhatsApp -> Olvid
Gmail -> Mailo
Reddit -> Lemmy
Play store -> Aurora store (no account needed)
Google (browser and search engine) -> Qwant
Google maps -> Here Wego
Gboard -> Heliboard
All trails -> Komoot
ChatGPT -> LeChat
Any recommendation to replace the following?
- Google Drive,
- Google photo,
- Apple wallet (I’d like an alternative to pay with my phone)
I replaced google drive with koofr. Very happy so far! Still unsure what I’m doing about Google wallet/Google pay…
How are Heliboard and Here Wego?
Heliboard is awesome. FOSS, very customizable, no telemetry, and all the keyboard tools you can think of.
Swiping is still a hard to install binary blob?
Sorry could you elaborate? Or was your comment made using the autofill functionality of heliboard?
I think they’re talking about the fact that the glide typing functionality depends on a closed-source library
That’s right. That’s the feature I’d really like to see a free as in freedom implementation for.
Ah sorry didn’t get that and didn’t know about this.
I think you’d like to take a look at Florisboard. It has an exeprimental glide typing engine that you can enable in the settings.
I also use Here WeGo, for me it’s really good for navigation, even for public transport or bicycle. But it’s really limited for location search, i noticed that when several places have the same name it doesn’t really sort them intuitively in the search results. Also for restaurants search i still rely it Google Maps for reviews and opening hours
I used it for navigation by bike only and it’s a great app!
Indeed there might be some places missing, and yesterday I had to type the full name of the restaurant I was looking for to find it - but it was there in the end.
I really wanted to like Here WeGo, it feels like a very good foundation, but I don’t think it’s quite there yet. When I use it in the car, it never tells me which exit to take or which sign to follow, only the name of the road I should enter, which I never have any idea about, so it doesn’t help me at all (unless it just says “follow the route,” which happens about 50 percent of the time, which of course doesn’t help what so ever either).
I’ve tested it on two slightly longer trips so far, and on both occasions it crashed and I couldn’t get it to work properly again…
But cool if someone got it to work better than I did! As I said, the foundation feels good, and maybe it’s better for biking!